Two Men, One Force
Chapter 9: Memory
The Black Dream's fleet approached Londo Bell's at an alarming rate. Hordes of Jegans launched from the Ra Cailum, Ra Sierra, and Ra Kiev. Philip looked at the incoming fleet and aimed his beam rifle. Jill's Jegan stood not to far from Philip's as she expressed her distress at the size of the offensive.
"This is going to be a rough one, Phillip."
"No kidding."
The Black Dream's Mobile Suits drew in and opened fire. Londo Bell's Mobile Suits quickly scattered and spewed beams and all at their opposing suits. Jegans and Geara Dogas fell one by one. The Nuremburg rushed past the Jegans and rushed at one defending the Ra Sierra and drove its overhead cannons into a it and blew it up. The Nuremburg was armed with a missile launcher instead of the usual shotguns. Sanders jolted to the right avoiding as much machine gun from the Ra Sierra as he could. A Jegan approached him, but he jammed his missile launcher into its chest and fired. Uninterrupted now, he fires three swift shots at the Ra Sierra.
"Serves you right!" Sanders shouted.
A Jegan whipped its beam saber out at the Nuremburg. Sanders thrusted up and looked down at the opposing suit. The pilot was Philip. "Get back down here , you bastard!"
Sanders focused his missile launcher on Philip. He launched it and Philip strafes out of the way into safety. Philip launches a volley of shots from his beam rifle which Sanders easily evaded. Philip forced the Jegan's maneuverability to its limit as it fired its beam rifle while avoiding attack.
"Shit, this guy's good . . ."
"Philip!" Jill screamed.
"I'm kind of busy here . . ."
"The black ones!"
"Great. Just great. Yuu, where the hell can you be?
* * * * *
Close to the battlefield, the Miracle Gundam and the Lionheart closed in on the area. Yuu sat back relaxed. He was deep in concentration and kept his cool.
"Yuu . . ." a female voice called.
Yuu immediately recognized the voice. "Marion . . ."
Yuu was now in the middle of a fantasy World among the stars. In font of him was a naked angel capable of many things
"You've woken me back up . . ."
"I tried my best to free you from EXAM, Marion. It's just that . . . so many people want to use you . . ."
"I understand. You didn't wake me up . . ."
"I know . . . but I felt like I have because I have to use you again . . . the Black Dream, they're trying to use you . . ."
"I know. Oh Yuu, you have to save me!"
"Marion . . . I'll try."
"A sad person . . . inferiority complex . . . angst . . . sorrow . . . pain . . . frustration . . . vengeful . . . greed . . . vulnerability . . . I've . . . I've . . ." She threw her head back and forth and clasped her face. Tears ran down her face. Yuu moved towards her.
"Marion?"
". . . I've never seen such a soul so sad. Such a tortured soul she carries."
"Who?"
She removed her hands from her face. "Nanai Miguel . . . I see her from here . . ."
"Nanai Miguel?" Yuu started to think. "Is she the pilot of the other EXAM Mobile Suit?"
"No . . . but the root of our sorrows is at the root of hers . . ."
"But, Marion, who is this? Who is using the other EXAM?"
"I . . . I . . . ugh!"
"Aaaah!"
Yuu shouted and it looked as if the Miracle was about to spaz out.
"Yuu? Yuu?!" Yazan shouted.
"I'm okay. I'm just fine . . ."
"You okay, kid?"
"Yeah . . . I'm just fine."
* * * * *
"I'll get you!" Philip screamed.
Philip's Jegan swung back and forth at Sanders. The Nuremburg parried each attack with his heat swallow is if they were nothing.
"God, does anything phase this guy?"
"If I'm the reaper . . . then I guess I don't have a choice . . ."
The Nuremburg's heat swallow crashed against Philip's Jegan's beam saber. They forced the energy of each other's suits into their melee attack and pushed against each other. Sanders quickly switched on his chest vulcans, and shot Philip off.
"You lasted longer than the others, but you're still nothing, boy."
Three Geara Dogas joined in with Sanders in surrounding Philip. Sanders reequipped his missile launcher and launched a missile at Philip. Philip immediately cried for help and jammed his controls in a random direction in desperation. The missile hit the foot of the Jegan and destroyed it. Philip tried to regain control of his Mobile Suit with no avail.
"Dammit, dammit, dammit, you can't do this to me, not now!
"You lasted long, but it's time you went to hell!"
Philip shut his eyes and clutched himself. Three sudden explosions rocked space and shocked everyone in the area. The three Geara Dogas were now nothing but stardust, in their place standing the Miracle Gundam with its twin beam rifle extended, pointing towards Sanders.
"Yuu!" Philip shouted.
"I made it . . ."
Sanders looked down in disbelief. "Londo Bell's getting a lot of luck today . . ."
The Miracle gazed at the Nuremburg. The Miracle again looked like it was going to spas out and lose control.
"God, I can't lose control . . . not now . . . not now . . ."
"Yuu . . ."
"I have to fight!"
"The black ones, Yuu!"
Yuu pulled himself back into his conscious self and realized the Nuremburg was about to attack him. Yuu dodged the attack and any more incoming attacks.
"Philip, are you okay?"
"Yeah, I just got a hold of my MS. I'm retuning to the Ra Cailum."
"Good idea. This guy's mine."
The Nuremburg pulled its heat swallow off of its back.
"No!" a loud voice screamed.
The Lionheart appeared and stopped in front of Yuu. Yazan wore a devilish smile on his face. "This is mine."
"Alright . . . be careful . . ."
The Miracle Gundam grabbed Philip's Jegan and returned it to the Ra Cailum where the techs dragged it in. At full speeds, Yuu blasted into the battle field. In the Miracle's right hand is its twin beam rifle and in its left is its compact machine gun. The battleships of the Black Dream slowly closed in on the battlefield. Yuu picked off a few enemies in a swift wave of attacks. In the heart of the battlefield, he stopped and aimed.
"The Jinn Dogas . . ."
Yuu was suddenly surrounded by four black Mobile Suits, all circling around him at high speeds.
"Nimbus . . . but how? You died. I know you did."
"Yuu!" Marion's voice called. "They're not Nimbus . . . they're merely imposters . . ."
"Imposters? Right . . ."
One of the Jinn Dogas threw itself at Yuu with its two heat sabers. Yuu strafed out of the way and found himself the target of beam machine gun fire. He dropped out of the way and whirled around as the Jinn Dogas followed his lead. He jetted away from them while firing his rifle. The black suits scattered to avoid the attack and then reassembled. Two of the suits thrusted forward and surrounded Yuu. Dozens of beams flew out at the Miracle. Yuu promptly evaded. A Jinn Doga suddenly dropped from above with its heat saber in a stabbing position. The Miracle's left arm swiftly rose and injected loads of machine gun bullets into it. The Jinn Doga floated off, and Yuu finished it off with a shot from his beam rifle.
Yuu took a deep breath as he faced off against the remaining Jinn Dogas. He jerked the Miracle out of a wave of attacks and planted a Jinn Doga with a beam rifle shot, blasting off its arm. With its remaining arm, it jabbed at Yuu with its heat saber. The Miracle Gundam ducked into safety and finished the suit off with another beam shot. The next Jinn Doga opened for on Yuu from below. Surprised, Yuu held his shield up and flew out of the way. The Jinn Doga flew past the shredded shield and was set to attack Yuu with its heat sabers. Yuu attacked first with a beam attack, but the Jinn Doga evaded and dropped its shield, which unleashed a beam attack. Yuu escaped the line of fire ignited his twin beam rifle into a twin beam saber and engaged in a sword fight with the Jinn Doga. He slashed through the torso, setting the black suit ablaze.
The last of the four jumped behind the Miracle and slashed at it. Yuu knocked the heat saber away and launched two missiles from his chest, blowing the Jinn Doga away. The EXAM-delivering pilot breathed heavily after the encounter, but his job wasn't done yet.
The Black Dream's battleships approached the retracting Londo Bell's ships. Yuu shouted and boosted towards them. He dropped under the Rewloola and stopped underneath it. He unloaded a stream of beam attacks into the bottom of the ship, causing massive explosions, engulfing the ship in flames . . .
The Titanic changed its altitude and continued to maintain its rate of fire on Londo Bell.
* * * * *
"Major Nanai!" a soldier screamed.
Nanai looked preoccupied. She didn't hear her name being called. She grasped her face in fear.
"Major Nanai . . ."
"The Rewloola . . ." she said. She knew what was going on.
"Ma'am, both the Rewloola and the Recca have fallen. Our battle strength has just dropped 30%."
"Oh God the Rewloola . . . they got the Rewloola . . ." She started to cry.
"Ma'am?"
A wave of anger reached across Nanai's face. She immediately confronted the panel controls for the remaining microwave in the colonies. Without hesitation, she activated them.
The Lionheart and the Nuremburg's onslaught continued above the heavily damaged Ra Sierra. They exchanged blows with their close range weapons. Yazan whipped the Lionheart's katana back and forth against Sanders' heat swallow. Neither man showed any sign of giving into a surrender.
Sanders spat to his side. "Tough fighter . . . this guy . . ."
Yazan sat with his back fully erected and smiled. "I think it's past your death time."
* * * * *
"Major Ridden, this is Rear Admiral Kycilia."
"Yes, my lady?"
"There are two strong enemies on that battlefield. The Miracle Gundam and the Lionheart. Your main mission is take them out and then attack the Ra Cailum. Understand?"
"Yes, my lady."
"Good. You are clear to launch major."
"For the glory of Neo Zeon! This is Johnny Ridden . . . launching!"
The Regalus shot out across space into the battlefield. Johnny prepared himself to enter the battlefield, but he watched as the Miracle Gundam fought off another batch of Jinn Dogas. Within a few minutes, the batch was done with, and only the Miracle Gundam remained.
"Stinkin' Feddie. For Kycilia, I will defeat this enemy in her honor!"
He circled around the perimeter of the Miracle Gundam. Yuu immediately knew something was coming. He dashed to his right and avoided a volley of rockets. The Miracle Gundam turned around and spotted the Regalus. Its overhead cannons locked on to the Miracle and fired. Yuu drove out of the way and fired two missiles of his own from the Miracle's chest. Johnny easily picked the missiles off firing his mega beam rifle at them.
"Is that all you got, Feddie?"
"This one . . . he's using EXAM . . ."
"Yuu . . ."
"Marion?"
"This one . . . he . . . he is . . ."
"Marion?!"
"He's not alive. He doesn't know who he is. He's . . . he's lost. He has no limits. Yuu . . . to defeat him is . . ."
Yuu fired his beam rifle, but Johnny evaded easily and rushed at the Miracle. Yuu aimed, but the Regalus blew the rifle up with his arm-mounted grenade launcher. The Gundam backed away and pulled the trigger of its machine gun. It "clicked", and nothing came out. Yuu threw the machine gun at the Regalus which in turn unloaded another round of rockets from its overhead launchers. Yuu dodged the attack and pulled out a beam saber. Johnny did the same.
"Now this is a battle!"
"Grr . . ."
The jumped at each other. Their beam sabers smacked each other's at full force. Yuu swiftly pulled his back and slashed upwards. Johnny moved the Mobile Suit's arm at an amazing speed, defending and attacking as if he didn't have to think about it. Yuu kept up, unleashing a strong defense. They blasted across the battlefield and came close to the Ra Sierra while they fought. The Regalus moved back and launched its two warheads. Yuu leaped out of the way, but the warheads crashed into the bridge of the already heavily damaged Ra Sierra, turning it into a blinding fireball.
In a rage, Yuu hacked away at Johnny who was barely able to defend. "You bastard! You're gonna' pay for all those people you killed!"
"You . . . !"
"Fight . . ." said a female voice."
"Who is this . . . ?" Johnny asked.
". . . the enemy . . ."
"Who . . ."
". . . who is my enemy?!!"
"Aaaah!!!"
Suddenly, Johnny began to shake violently. The Regalus thrusted back, away from Yuu. Johnny let out a vicious scream. Yuu heard this scream and backed away in fear. The mono eye of the Regalus glowed. In a fierce rage, the Regalus attacked Yuu with constant beam saber slashes. Yuu ignited a second beam saber and struck Ridden's beam sabers with aggressive speed and strength. He laid on an attack with both sabers while Johnny slowly backed off, striking against Yuu's quick attacks.
Yuu slashed at the Regalus with both beam sabers. The crimson red and blue suit veered out of the way of the lethal attack and threw its beam saber at the Miracle, slicing off one of its arms. Johnny ignited his last beam saber and attacked Yuu. Yuu cut back and fired his vulcans, grazing the shoulder of the enemy.
"Marjor Ridden" Nanai screamed.
Johnny suddenly came out of his phase. "God . . . gah . . . what . . . ?"
"Major Ridden! We're retreating. Please return."
"Yes . . . I will . . . I will . . ."
The Regalus turned off its beam saber and escaped, leaving Yuu behind. Yuu watched as the Black Dream escaped the battle, but heavily damaged and leaving an outcome much less of what they expected. Yuu stared in awe at the retreating Regalus.
"Johnny . . . Ridden . . . ?"
To Be Continued . . .
The Black Dream's fleet approached Londo Bell's at an alarming rate. Hordes of Jegans launched from the Ra Cailum, Ra Sierra, and Ra Kiev. Philip looked at the incoming fleet and aimed his beam rifle. Jill's Jegan stood not to far from Philip's as she expressed her distress at the size of the offensive.
"This is going to be a rough one, Phillip."
"No kidding."
The Black Dream's Mobile Suits drew in and opened fire. Londo Bell's Mobile Suits quickly scattered and spewed beams and all at their opposing suits. Jegans and Geara Dogas fell one by one. The Nuremburg rushed past the Jegans and rushed at one defending the Ra Sierra and drove its overhead cannons into a it and blew it up. The Nuremburg was armed with a missile launcher instead of the usual shotguns. Sanders jolted to the right avoiding as much machine gun from the Ra Sierra as he could. A Jegan approached him, but he jammed his missile launcher into its chest and fired. Uninterrupted now, he fires three swift shots at the Ra Sierra.
"Serves you right!" Sanders shouted.
A Jegan whipped its beam saber out at the Nuremburg. Sanders thrusted up and looked down at the opposing suit. The pilot was Philip. "Get back down here , you bastard!"
Sanders focused his missile launcher on Philip. He launched it and Philip strafes out of the way into safety. Philip launches a volley of shots from his beam rifle which Sanders easily evaded. Philip forced the Jegan's maneuverability to its limit as it fired its beam rifle while avoiding attack.
"Shit, this guy's good . . ."
"Philip!" Jill screamed.
"I'm kind of busy here . . ."
"The black ones!"
"Great. Just great. Yuu, where the hell can you be?
* * * * *
Close to the battlefield, the Miracle Gundam and the Lionheart closed in on the area. Yuu sat back relaxed. He was deep in concentration and kept his cool.
"Yuu . . ." a female voice called.
Yuu immediately recognized the voice. "Marion . . ."
Yuu was now in the middle of a fantasy World among the stars. In font of him was a naked angel capable of many things
"You've woken me back up . . ."
"I tried my best to free you from EXAM, Marion. It's just that . . . so many people want to use you . . ."
"I understand. You didn't wake me up . . ."
"I know . . . but I felt like I have because I have to use you again . . . the Black Dream, they're trying to use you . . ."
"I know. Oh Yuu, you have to save me!"
"Marion . . . I'll try."
"A sad person . . . inferiority complex . . . angst . . . sorrow . . . pain . . . frustration . . . vengeful . . . greed . . . vulnerability . . . I've . . . I've . . ." She threw her head back and forth and clasped her face. Tears ran down her face. Yuu moved towards her.
"Marion?"
". . . I've never seen such a soul so sad. Such a tortured soul she carries."
"Who?"
She removed her hands from her face. "Nanai Miguel . . . I see her from here . . ."
"Nanai Miguel?" Yuu started to think. "Is she the pilot of the other EXAM Mobile Suit?"
"No . . . but the root of our sorrows is at the root of hers . . ."
"But, Marion, who is this? Who is using the other EXAM?"
"I . . . I . . . ugh!"
"Aaaah!"
Yuu shouted and it looked as if the Miracle was about to spaz out.
"Yuu? Yuu?!" Yazan shouted.
"I'm okay. I'm just fine . . ."
"You okay, kid?"
"Yeah . . . I'm just fine."
* * * * *
"I'll get you!" Philip screamed.
Philip's Jegan swung back and forth at Sanders. The Nuremburg parried each attack with his heat swallow is if they were nothing.
"God, does anything phase this guy?"
"If I'm the reaper . . . then I guess I don't have a choice . . ."
The Nuremburg's heat swallow crashed against Philip's Jegan's beam saber. They forced the energy of each other's suits into their melee attack and pushed against each other. Sanders quickly switched on his chest vulcans, and shot Philip off.
"You lasted longer than the others, but you're still nothing, boy."
Three Geara Dogas joined in with Sanders in surrounding Philip. Sanders reequipped his missile launcher and launched a missile at Philip. Philip immediately cried for help and jammed his controls in a random direction in desperation. The missile hit the foot of the Jegan and destroyed it. Philip tried to regain control of his Mobile Suit with no avail.
"Dammit, dammit, dammit, you can't do this to me, not now!
"You lasted long, but it's time you went to hell!"
Philip shut his eyes and clutched himself. Three sudden explosions rocked space and shocked everyone in the area. The three Geara Dogas were now nothing but stardust, in their place standing the Miracle Gundam with its twin beam rifle extended, pointing towards Sanders.
"Yuu!" Philip shouted.
"I made it . . ."
Sanders looked down in disbelief. "Londo Bell's getting a lot of luck today . . ."
The Miracle gazed at the Nuremburg. The Miracle again looked like it was going to spas out and lose control.
"God, I can't lose control . . . not now . . . not now . . ."
"Yuu . . ."
"I have to fight!"
"The black ones, Yuu!"
Yuu pulled himself back into his conscious self and realized the Nuremburg was about to attack him. Yuu dodged the attack and any more incoming attacks.
"Philip, are you okay?"
"Yeah, I just got a hold of my MS. I'm retuning to the Ra Cailum."
"Good idea. This guy's mine."
The Nuremburg pulled its heat swallow off of its back.
"No!" a loud voice screamed.
The Lionheart appeared and stopped in front of Yuu. Yazan wore a devilish smile on his face. "This is mine."
"Alright . . . be careful . . ."
The Miracle Gundam grabbed Philip's Jegan and returned it to the Ra Cailum where the techs dragged it in. At full speeds, Yuu blasted into the battle field. In the Miracle's right hand is its twin beam rifle and in its left is its compact machine gun. The battleships of the Black Dream slowly closed in on the battlefield. Yuu picked off a few enemies in a swift wave of attacks. In the heart of the battlefield, he stopped and aimed.
"The Jinn Dogas . . ."
Yuu was suddenly surrounded by four black Mobile Suits, all circling around him at high speeds.
"Nimbus . . . but how? You died. I know you did."
"Yuu!" Marion's voice called. "They're not Nimbus . . . they're merely imposters . . ."
"Imposters? Right . . ."
One of the Jinn Dogas threw itself at Yuu with its two heat sabers. Yuu strafed out of the way and found himself the target of beam machine gun fire. He dropped out of the way and whirled around as the Jinn Dogas followed his lead. He jetted away from them while firing his rifle. The black suits scattered to avoid the attack and then reassembled. Two of the suits thrusted forward and surrounded Yuu. Dozens of beams flew out at the Miracle. Yuu promptly evaded. A Jinn Doga suddenly dropped from above with its heat saber in a stabbing position. The Miracle's left arm swiftly rose and injected loads of machine gun bullets into it. The Jinn Doga floated off, and Yuu finished it off with a shot from his beam rifle.
Yuu took a deep breath as he faced off against the remaining Jinn Dogas. He jerked the Miracle out of a wave of attacks and planted a Jinn Doga with a beam rifle shot, blasting off its arm. With its remaining arm, it jabbed at Yuu with its heat saber. The Miracle Gundam ducked into safety and finished the suit off with another beam shot. The next Jinn Doga opened for on Yuu from below. Surprised, Yuu held his shield up and flew out of the way. The Jinn Doga flew past the shredded shield and was set to attack Yuu with its heat sabers. Yuu attacked first with a beam attack, but the Jinn Doga evaded and dropped its shield, which unleashed a beam attack. Yuu escaped the line of fire ignited his twin beam rifle into a twin beam saber and engaged in a sword fight with the Jinn Doga. He slashed through the torso, setting the black suit ablaze.
The last of the four jumped behind the Miracle and slashed at it. Yuu knocked the heat saber away and launched two missiles from his chest, blowing the Jinn Doga away. The EXAM-delivering pilot breathed heavily after the encounter, but his job wasn't done yet.
The Black Dream's battleships approached the retracting Londo Bell's ships. Yuu shouted and boosted towards them. He dropped under the Rewloola and stopped underneath it. He unloaded a stream of beam attacks into the bottom of the ship, causing massive explosions, engulfing the ship in flames . . .
The Titanic changed its altitude and continued to maintain its rate of fire on Londo Bell.
* * * * *
"Major Nanai!" a soldier screamed.
Nanai looked preoccupied. She didn't hear her name being called. She grasped her face in fear.
"Major Nanai . . ."
"The Rewloola . . ." she said. She knew what was going on.
"Ma'am, both the Rewloola and the Recca have fallen. Our battle strength has just dropped 30%."
"Oh God the Rewloola . . . they got the Rewloola . . ." She started to cry.
"Ma'am?"
A wave of anger reached across Nanai's face. She immediately confronted the panel controls for the remaining microwave in the colonies. Without hesitation, she activated them.
The Lionheart and the Nuremburg's onslaught continued above the heavily damaged Ra Sierra. They exchanged blows with their close range weapons. Yazan whipped the Lionheart's katana back and forth against Sanders' heat swallow. Neither man showed any sign of giving into a surrender.
Sanders spat to his side. "Tough fighter . . . this guy . . ."
Yazan sat with his back fully erected and smiled. "I think it's past your death time."
* * * * *
"Major Ridden, this is Rear Admiral Kycilia."
"Yes, my lady?"
"There are two strong enemies on that battlefield. The Miracle Gundam and the Lionheart. Your main mission is take them out and then attack the Ra Cailum. Understand?"
"Yes, my lady."
"Good. You are clear to launch major."
"For the glory of Neo Zeon! This is Johnny Ridden . . . launching!"
The Regalus shot out across space into the battlefield. Johnny prepared himself to enter the battlefield, but he watched as the Miracle Gundam fought off another batch of Jinn Dogas. Within a few minutes, the batch was done with, and only the Miracle Gundam remained.
"Stinkin' Feddie. For Kycilia, I will defeat this enemy in her honor!"
He circled around the perimeter of the Miracle Gundam. Yuu immediately knew something was coming. He dashed to his right and avoided a volley of rockets. The Miracle Gundam turned around and spotted the Regalus. Its overhead cannons locked on to the Miracle and fired. Yuu drove out of the way and fired two missiles of his own from the Miracle's chest. Johnny easily picked the missiles off firing his mega beam rifle at them.
"Is that all you got, Feddie?"
"This one . . . he's using EXAM . . ."
"Yuu . . ."
"Marion?"
"This one . . . he . . . he is . . ."
"Marion?!"
"He's not alive. He doesn't know who he is. He's . . . he's lost. He has no limits. Yuu . . . to defeat him is . . ."
Yuu fired his beam rifle, but Johnny evaded easily and rushed at the Miracle. Yuu aimed, but the Regalus blew the rifle up with his arm-mounted grenade launcher. The Gundam backed away and pulled the trigger of its machine gun. It "clicked", and nothing came out. Yuu threw the machine gun at the Regalus which in turn unloaded another round of rockets from its overhead launchers. Yuu dodged the attack and pulled out a beam saber. Johnny did the same.
"Now this is a battle!"
"Grr . . ."
The jumped at each other. Their beam sabers smacked each other's at full force. Yuu swiftly pulled his back and slashed upwards. Johnny moved the Mobile Suit's arm at an amazing speed, defending and attacking as if he didn't have to think about it. Yuu kept up, unleashing a strong defense. They blasted across the battlefield and came close to the Ra Sierra while they fought. The Regalus moved back and launched its two warheads. Yuu leaped out of the way, but the warheads crashed into the bridge of the already heavily damaged Ra Sierra, turning it into a blinding fireball.
In a rage, Yuu hacked away at Johnny who was barely able to defend. "You bastard! You're gonna' pay for all those people you killed!"
"You . . . !"
"Fight . . ." said a female voice."
"Who is this . . . ?" Johnny asked.
". . . the enemy . . ."
"Who . . ."
". . . who is my enemy?!!"
"Aaaah!!!"
Suddenly, Johnny began to shake violently. The Regalus thrusted back, away from Yuu. Johnny let out a vicious scream. Yuu heard this scream and backed away in fear. The mono eye of the Regalus glowed. In a fierce rage, the Regalus attacked Yuu with constant beam saber slashes. Yuu ignited a second beam saber and struck Ridden's beam sabers with aggressive speed and strength. He laid on an attack with both sabers while Johnny slowly backed off, striking against Yuu's quick attacks.
Yuu slashed at the Regalus with both beam sabers. The crimson red and blue suit veered out of the way of the lethal attack and threw its beam saber at the Miracle, slicing off one of its arms. Johnny ignited his last beam saber and attacked Yuu. Yuu cut back and fired his vulcans, grazing the shoulder of the enemy.
"Marjor Ridden" Nanai screamed.
Johnny suddenly came out of his phase. "God . . . gah . . . what . . . ?"
"Major Ridden! We're retreating. Please return."
"Yes . . . I will . . . I will . . ."
The Regalus turned off its beam saber and escaped, leaving Yuu behind. Yuu watched as the Black Dream escaped the battle, but heavily damaged and leaving an outcome much less of what they expected. Yuu stared in awe at the retreating Regalus.
"Johnny . . . Ridden . . . ?"
To Be Continued . . .